HC Deb 21 July 1980 vol 989 c37W
Miss Maynard

asked the Secretary of State for Energy what are the latest import figures for coal, compared to the last 10 years.

Mr. John Moore

Statistics of coal imports are published in my Department's monthly bulletinEnergy Trends and in the annual digest of United Kingdom energy statistics, copies of which are available in the Library of the House. For convenience, the figures are as follows:

Coal imports (million tonnes)
1970 0.1
1971 4.2
1972 5.0
1973 1.6
1974 3.5
1975 5.0
1976 2.8
1977 2.4
1978 2.4
1979 4.4
Jan.—May 1979 1.1
Jan—May 1980 2.7